Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT: Futures Consciousness (FC) refers to the capacity that a person has for understanding, anticipating, and preparing for the future. In many respects, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for future thinking, implying delay discounting, uncertainty, low sense of control, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of the community at large. FC might hence have an important role in explaining people's perceptions of and reactions to the pandemic. The results of a longitudinal study over the course of the summer 2020 found that UK participants (N = 298) who reported higher scores of FC at the first time of measure were more likely to express greater satisfaction and engagement with the COVID-19 government restrictions at the second time of measure. They also reported higher compassion for others,

SUBMITTER: Lalot F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature